Impeccable Timing (is impeccable spelled right?)

Rachel's Challenge is a wonderful cause working to reach every student in America via a chain reaction. It is based on a girl, Rachel Scott, who was shot during the Columbine tragedy. (I encourage all you to check out the website. It's definitely worth it.) When the gunman pointed his gun at Rachel's face, he asked her a question. "Do you still believe in God?" She answered yes. He asked why but never gave her the chance to answer before shooting her. Her challenge is based on the chain reaction that her story started.

I was talking to one of my friends on the phone one night and he mentioned Rachel's Challenge. He's not extremely religious but I asked if that was the girl who said yes when the gunman asked if she believed in God. He said that he didn't know anything about that and that was the end of it. The next morning, I was reading in my new Jesus Freaks devotional. Each day I read a story and it has an application and a Bible verse. That morning after our discussion about Rachel's Challenge, the story of Rachel Scott's martyrdom was the devotion for the day. Talk about impeccable timing! Only God can pull that kind of stuff off.

Amen.

Timely Money

There is this totally awesome youth conference that's going to be going on Nov. 6~8 at Elim Gospel Church. It's called Saturate and most of the people that I've talked to who went to it last year really liked it and got a bunch out of it. I wanted to go really bad but had accepted the fact that I wouldn't have enough money when it came time to pay for it. The cost for me would have been $25.

At chapel last week, I was up in the sound booth. I didn't really listen to the sermon much at all but I did hear him talk about Saturate and he encouraged everyone to go. Still wanting to go and knowing that I wouldn't have the money, I prayed and told God that if He wanted me to go, then He would have to provide a way because there was just no way that I was going to be able to pull it off. That was the end of it; it was a span of two minutes max. and then I went back to doing sound stuff.

I got off the bus that day and got the mail like I do almost every day. This day there was an envelope addressed to me from a photography place. I figured that they wanted me to get my senior pictures taken with them but as I looked closer, the envelope was too small for any propaganda of that sort. I slowly opened the envelope and pulled out what appeared to be a check. It was made out to me for $25.

At first, I didn't get it. I couldn't figure out why they were sending me money. A million thoughts went through my head. It was a "check" to spend at their studio when I went to get my pictures taken. It was a rebate for something I had bought. They were paying me off for something I knew. This was the crazy stuff that I was thinking until I looked at the memo on the check and it said "donation." This must have been from God. I quickly prayed and asked God if this was for real and then I called my best friend. She got all excited too and said her predictable but still encouraging, "That's awesome, Katy!"

I am now signed up to go to my first youth conference, Saturate. I am so excited!!! I can't wait to see what God has in store for me. PRAISE GOD!!!

Amen.

God is Good! ....all the time....

I was really worried about having money for a float in the cash box at the pasta dinner tomorrow. I was trying not to think too hard about it but it was definitely at the back of my mind. So as I was going around and cleaning my room tonight, I randomly found fifteen dollars in an old backpack. Then when I went to put it away, I found another twenty dollars. So I decided to look a little deeper and, lo and behold, I found another twenty-five dollars! How amazing is that?!?!?! GOD IS GOOD.

Amen.